Warrington Rural District

infobox historic subdivision
Name= Warrington Rural District
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Status= Rural district
Start= 1894
End= 1974
Replace= Warrington


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It was formed a rural district under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Warrington rural sanitary district, and was centred on territory north of the town of Warrington (which was broadly covered by the County Borough of Warrington).

Boundaries

It covered the following parishes initially:

*Burtonwood
*Cuerdley
*Great Sankey
*Houghton, Middleton and Arbury
*Little Sankey
*Penketh
*Poulton with Fearnhead
*Rixton with Glazebrook
*Southworth with Croft
*Winwick with Hulme
*Woolston with Martinscroft

The parish of Little Sankey, which had been formed from that part of Warrington parish not in Warrington borough; was added to Warrington in 1896.

Reorganisation

The district was reorganised in 1933, by taking in part of the disbanded Leigh Rural District. Several parishes were reorganised [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10027020 Warrington RD Lancashire through time | Administrative history of Local Government District: hierarchies, boundaries ] ]

*Burtonwood
*Croft
*Cuerdley
*Great Sankey
*Penketh
*Poulton with Fearnhead
*Rixton with Glazebrook
*Winwick
*Woolston

The district was abolished on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It became part of the new borough of Warrington in the non-metropolitan county of Cheshire.

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